CV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review
CV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Ten Percent Legal Careers Services.
Careers Advice
Is Age a Factor on My CV?
Article outlining experience of age discrimination from a legal recruitment perspective. Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Contract Manager or Legal Counsel – Tailoring Job Applications
How to frame a commercial contracts manager job title when the work is as in-house legal counsel dealing with commercial contracts.
Interview Question 48 – Explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it?
Interview question and answer – explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help!
I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help! Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Don’t panic.
Interview Question & Answer – Do You Work Well with Others?
Interview Question 47 – Do you work well with others, or are you a loner? Suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible?
Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Interview Question 46 – Do you prefer to work in a small, medium or large company?
Advice This is a very loaded question and one that has been asked in interviews up and down the country with the wrong answer given on numerous occasions. During a range of practice interviews I have regularly asked this question and been amazed at the response given. Interviewees often think it is the chance to…
I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis?
I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis? No. An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question & Answer 45 – Do you need other people around to stimulate you or are you self-motivated?
Interview question on self-motivation and suggested answers from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Locums Covering More Than One Field of Law
We often get partners of law firms contacting us to request details of locums who are able to do conveyancing and wills and probate, residential and commercial conveyancing and many more besides. Is it feasible?
CV Review for Newly Qualified Solicitor
Free CV Review for a Newly Qualified Solicitor from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – legal careers and CV writing services for lawyers and law graduates.
Interview Question 44 – Do you mind working for someone older than yourself? Younger than you?
Interview questions and answers from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – working for someone younger than you.
Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Help to get a training contract – advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for the legal profession since 2000.
Interview Question and Answer – Do you know how to motivate other people?
Interview question and answer on knowing how to motivate people.
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) in order to get into a Magic Circle law firm? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Legal Recruitment News February 2021
Legal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for February 2021. Includes legal job market reports, hourly rate guides for locums, video CVs, independent legal advice service, redoing A levels to join city law firms.
What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
Difference between Employment Agency and Employment Business. Article by Jonathan Fagan, Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Legal Recruitment News January 2021
Legal Recruitment News includes a legal job market report, hourly rates guide for locums, a state of the market report for the sale of law firms and articles on job interviews, buying a law firm for nothing and interview techniques. January 2021 edition.
Interview Question 42 – Do you feel you are ready to take on greater responsibilities?
Interview Question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist
Job Interview Technique – using a fake receptionist to root out bad employees attending for interview. Article by Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review – Commercial Paralegal with Experience
CV review for a paralegal with commercial law experience. A free review service from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
My A levels are BDE and I have a couple of low percentages in my second year of a law degree. Should I give up now?
Student with low A levels and poor degree grades – should they even bother trying to establish themselves in the legal profession or whether they have scuppered their chances with their grades and need to look elsewhere.
Interview Question and Answer 41 – Do You Enjoy Travelling?
Interview question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – do you enjoy travelling? A loaded question.
Getting Your Legal CV Noticed
Writing a CV and applying for a legal job can be a very simple thing to do, but writing a CV for a legal job and getting it noticed by a potential employer is a different matter entirely.
CV Review for LPC Student Looking to Stand Out from the Crowd
CV Review for an LPC Student looking to make her CV stand out from the crowd. Free Service from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question & Answer no.40 – Do You Consider Yourself Successful?
Do you consider yourself successful?
CV Review – Legal Profession Entrant from Elite Sport Background
CV Review for legal profession entrant with sports background. Part of the free CV review service from Ten Percent Legal. We review, we blog about it. You get a free review!
Does my first year at university matter?
Do 1st year university results matter? An article with full advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with particular emphasis on law students.
Tailoring a CV for Job Applications – How Important is it?
Tailoring a CV – how important is it? A discussion with Ten Percent Legal Recruitment about senior lawyers and their CVs (and the lack of information).